Best plays of the early American theatre; from the beginning to 1916.
Edited, with introductions, by John Gassner in association with Mollie Gassner.
- New York, Crown Publishers [1967]
- xlviii, 716 p. front. 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. xlvii-xlviii.
The Contrast / Royall Tyler -- Superstition / James N. Barker -- Charles the Second / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving -- Fashion / Anna Cora Mowatt -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / George L. Aiken -- The Octoroon / Dion Boucicault -- The Count of Monte Cristo / Charles Fechter -- The Mouse-trap / William Dean Howells -- Secret Service / William Gillette -- The Great divide / William Vaughn Moody -- The New York idea / Langdon Mitchell -- The Truth / Clyde Fitch -- The Witching hour / Augustus Thomas -- Salvation Nell / Edward Sheldon -- The Easiest way / Eugene Walter -- The Scarecrow / Percy MacKaye.